Returned travellers have Brisbane hotel quarantine stay extended after Russian COVID-19 variant scare

Passengers and crew on an international flight that arrived in Brisbane last month have been forced to extend their hotel quarantine stay after “several cases” of the Russian COVID-19 variant were detected.

Those on Qatar Airways flight QR898, which arrived from Doha on February 17, will remain in hotel quarantine until March 8 and undergo additional testing after the cases were recorded among passengers.

Metro North Hospital and Health Service confirmed the news to the passengers, who had…